A health visitor holding a small child, promoting a campaign against tuberculosis and infant mortality. Colour lithograph by A. Leroux, 1918.

  • Leroux, Jules Marie Auguste, 1871-1954.
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[1918]
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A health visitor holding a small child, promoting a campaign against tuberculosis and infant mortality. Colour lithograph by A. Leroux, 1918. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Paris] : Commission Américaine de préservation contre la tuberculose en France, [1918] (Paris : Devambez)

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours

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La visiteuse d'hygiène vous montrera le chemin de la santé. Elle mène une croisade contre la tuberculose et la mortalité infantile. Soutenez-la! Commission Américaine de préservation contre la tuberculose en France. Visa no. 15996. Auguste Leroux.

References note

Jacques Lethève and Françoise Gardey, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome quatorzième, Paris 1967, p. 114, Auguste Leroux no. 18 ('18. La visiteuse d'hygiène... aff. coul. pour le Comité national de défense contre la tuberculose, femme portant une fillette coiffée du bonnet phrygien, impr. Crété, vers 1920.')
Julia F. Irwin, '"Sauvons les bébés": child health and U.S. humanitarian aid in the First World War', Bulletin of the history of medicine, 2012, 86: 37-65 (on American aid in France; p. 49 on the visiteuses)

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Wellcome Collection 23982i

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